KFRE-TV
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Sanger/Fresno, California United States |
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| City | Sanger |
| Branding | The CW KFRE 59 |
| Slogan | Dare to Defy |
| Channels |
Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 59 () |
| Subchannels | See Below |
| Affiliations | The CW |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (KFRE Licensee, LLC) |
| Founded | May 24, 1984 |
| First air date | July 17, 1985 |
| Call letters' meaning | FREsno |
| Sister station(s) | KMPH-TV |
| Former callsigns | KMSG-TV (1985–2001) |
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| Transmitter power | 360 kW |
| Height | 607 m |
| Facility ID | 59013 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°4′37″N 119°26′1″W / 37.07694°N 119.43361°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | kmph-kfre |
KFRE-TV, virtual channel 59 (UHF digital channel 36), is a CW-affiliated television station serving Fresno, California, United States that is licensed to Sanger. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group as part of a duopoly with Fox affiliate KMPH-TV (channel 26). The two stations share studio facilities located on McKinley Avenue in eastern Fresno (one mile southwest of Fresno Yosemite International Airport); KFRE maintains transmitter facilities located on Bear Mountain (near Meadow Lakes).
The station first signed on the air on July 17, 1985 as KMSG-TV; originally operating as an independent station, channel 59 originally ran a bilingual format of Spanish language programming during the afternoon and evening hours, and English language religious programs for about six hours a day each morning; it also ran mostly English language home shopping programs during the overnight hours. The station's Spanish programming was sourced from NetSpan, the second Spanish-language television network to launch in the United States (after the Spanish International Network, now Univision); NetSpan was relaunched as Telemundo in 1987. The following year, the station dropped its inventory of English language programs, and exclusively affiliated with Telemundo.
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